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Mesoscale Discussion 960

May 22, 200515 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, New Mexico; Laramie County, Wyoming

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 22, 2005, 2:56 PM MDT for 15 counties in Colorado; Colfax County, New Mexico; Laramie County, Wyoming. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2005, 2:56 PM MDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2005, 5:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Adams County, CO, Arapahoe County, CO, Boulder County, CO, Broomfield County, CO, Custer County, CO, Denver County, CO, Douglas County, CO, El Paso County, CO, Huerfano County, CO, Jefferson County, CO, Larimer County, CO, Las Animas County, CO, Pueblo County, CO, Teller County, CO, Weld County, CO, Colfax County, NM, Laramie County, WY

The radar

The Pueblo radar (KPUX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Denver, CO (KDNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 190 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Denver, CO at 12:00Z on 2005-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1598 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Colorado, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in New Mexico, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Wyoming, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.